Bidding is underway now between surgeons who are offering to work for less whenever state employees walk through their doors, in exchange for a guaranteed stream of patients on the North Carolina State Health Plan.
In a scathing report issued Tuesday, the GAO found that the Trump administration, by abruptly canceling NIH grants, had violated a 1974 law blocking presidents from withholding funding Congress has approved. The independent congressional watchdog said that in terminating over 1,800 NIH grants in response to President Trump's executive orders directing agencies to cut off federal funding for equity-related activities, the administration illegally withheld funds. In addition, the GAO found that the NIH's $8 billion shortfall in new and continuing awards between February and July amounted to an illegal withholding of obligated funds.
Quest Diagnostics has completed its acquisition of select clinical testing assets from Spectra Laboratories, owned by Fresenius Medical Care. The deal positions Quest to provide dialysis-related clinical testing to independent dialysis clinics previously served by Spectra. Under a separate laboratory services agreement, Quest will begin providing comprehensive dialysis-related laboratory services for Fresenius Medical Care's U.S. dialysis centers, serving approximately 200,000 patients annually. The service transition will start this month and is expected to complete by early 2026.
Ongoing investigation into whether bee venom could help treat a certain type of cancer has been making "important progress," the leading researcher has told Newsweek. Experts at the Epigenetics Lab at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research have been exploring since 2020 how the venom from honeybees could be used to kill aggressive breast cancer cells, without harming healthy cells.